100 years from now, people will look at clips like this and be like "Really, that was the guy?"

We will not end tech abuse until we end tech impunity. "At the end of the day, all law, in order to be effective, has actually got to mean something to the person who is potentially going to violate it, right? They have to be scared that they’re going to be punished in some way.”

BREAKING: Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court struck down laws, including the first U.S. ban on pill abortions.

I don't know if you need much evidence that Ackman has no principles but he led the charge to remove Claudine Gay from President of Harvard on *much* weaker evidence of academic misconduct. Then he threatened to pursue plagiarism accusations of anyone who pointed to his wife's alleged plagiarism.

There we go. That there’s a headline.

Trump: We are the 99%.

Washington Post Editorial Board: This is good.

It appears two ICE observers following ICE agents on 31st in south Minneapolis this morning were arrested. Activists say it appears the ICE observer vehicle was stopped or slid into something, and ICE agents used pepper spray and broke the car window, arresting the occupants.

Missed first vaccines make babies far more likely to miss measles shot, study finds www.statnews.com/2026/01/02/m... via @statnews.com @helenbranswell.bsky.social

I think a key part of this scheme is robbing as much money from blue states as possible in part to make Democrats who are electeds in these states less popular by creating budget crises there.

Fraud was the excuse: this is the real goal, revealed - reduce safety net funding, but only in blue states.

This is the type of stuff that does not get you shunned in Silicon Valley, but held up as some bold visionary

Five years ago, if you were to say that the people sacking the Capitol would be pardoned and celebrated, it would have been hard to believe. So too, if you were to predict that the person in who encouraged it would return to office. But we have a culture of impunity. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...

Bari Weiss's Free Press website ran this screed by Matt Taibbi defending his lawsuit against a book author. But the Free Press apparently never reached out to the author. Even though Weiss spiked that 60 Minutes piece for not reaching out to enough Trump officials www.thefp.com/p/matt-taibb...

Five years ago.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

"The real question is: by what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? What is the basis of their territorial claim? What is their basis for having Greenland as a colony of Denmark?" See colonialism is bad, kids. Except if the US is the engaged in the colonialism.

Big, big deal!

I do sort of wonder if Miller has accumulated so much power inside the White House because he always willing to yell over others with the most bombastic take and there is zero benefit in being seen as the voice of reason in front of Trump

Why...is the barbed wire being strewn across the mouth of the guy suing his critics? They are so addicted to the "I'm being silenced" trope that they stick with it even when they are doing the silencing

Around 2.28 he says tells Tapper: "You are approaching this from the wrong frame, this neoliberal frame that the United States job is to go around the world and demand immediate elections be held everywhere." Man, I know neoliberalism has been defined in all sorts of ways, but thats truly a new one.

So many good lines in this episode

Incredible stuff

Welcome to our new, golden age of merit

finally we get to deploy this meme against right wingers

If the biggest donor to the DCCC/DNC ran a website where you could use AI to take women's clothes off I feel like there'd be a demand for Dems to give the money back.

Of course this is the case if you only remove the regime leader and not the actual regime. So you get the Maduro regime without Maduro. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

"But the OBBBA’s work requirements don’t encourage, much less require, employers to do right by their employees. What they will do is punish workers–like the dad with his nose to the grindstone at the pizzeria–for labor market circumstances beyond their control." yup

Another reminder that the assault on scientific funding was broadly unpopular, even within the President's own party

Among everything else, congestion pricing does something exceptionally rare and good when talking about transportation in the United States: it puts the costs on drivers, to the benefit of everybody (even including the drivers willing to pay for it, who get a better experience from reduced traffic).

honestly would never have guessed that the founder of Sheetz was actually named "Sheetz"

Many low-income service workers already work 80+ hours per month on average. But 1 in 3 such workers will fall below the 80-hour-per-month threshold in at least one month in a year because of hours inconsistency or spells of unemployment

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A father works at a pizzeria with an unpredictable schedule: 40 hrs/wk, 48 hrs/wk, then 8 hrs, then 24. Under new work requirements for SNAP, a slow month could strip him & his family of vital food assistance. That’s despite averaging 32 hrs/week—well above 80 hr/month minimum the law will require.

If any media outlets want to talk about the closure of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, I'm currently writing the official history of public meeting for the CPB and Current, and I'm available.

"In normal liberal democracy terms, the US is in bad shape. But in consolidated authoritarianism terms, we’re doing pretty well." I wrote about the weirdness of walking around the monuments in DC, three ways the Trump regime stumbled this year, and why I'm cautiously optimistic heading into 2026.

More accurate is that Rod Dreher is known for his work for a European totalitarian in Viktor Orban

This is great data viz except it looks like Connections

Honestly was looking for more stuff from the Sheriff of Nottingham's perspective

Genuinely find this upsetting to watch. It’s the live and mass violation of women for daring to exist outside the narrow confines of a controlled and sexualised plaything for men

If Grok can recognize that this is adult content, then it can recognize it should not be posting it

What if, and bear with me on this coz its going to sound radical, the Washington Post's Editorial Board could reach out to actual experts on this topic rather than rely on right-wing youtubers? donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-volat...

More on SSA data manipulation: www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

So important. Work volatility at low income levels is REAL, and exactly the type of thing SNAP should be providing insurance for. Food assistance obviously shouldn't have work requirements. But these that punish people who work a lot, inconsistently, don't even meet their stated objective.

The SSA is also engaging in unprecedented lying (and hyper-partisan communication) regarding agency activities. This is what their Facebook feed looks like. Reality: People are waiting over an hour for help, and 1 in 4 actually give up after waiting up to ~40 minutes www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

In competitive authoritarian regimes, the government deters and undermines opposition by using its powers to inflict costs on those who challenge it rather than recognizing their legitimacy as democratic opponents

New with @agpines.bsky.social: on Can We Still Govern, we show how OBBBA's new work requirements will deny benefits to families due to volatile hours and employment in the service industry--which is caused by bosses, not workers